Wolverinebass

8 hours ago, ern500evo said:

Aren’t there basically two different versions of the Quadrophenia soundtrack. The album I have is a different bass track to the version of The Real Me that’s in the OP clip. I thought Entwistle re-recorded the bass tracks with a much grittier tone, using an Alembic bass? 

He did for the soundtrack in 1979. I was talking about the tone on the 1973 album which is the one mentioned in the video.

1 hour ago, ezbass said:

 

59 minutes ago, ezbass said:

This ^
 

One of my favourite bass tones of all time is in that video list, The Real Me. Love it! However, in isolation, it’s horrible and I was aghast the first time I heard it like that. Of course, when the mix buries the bass tone, what’s the actual point of being there at all? I feel sorry for Jason Newstead, seems a nice guy and a decent player, forced to work with that goblin behind the drums. I bet Trujillo doesn’t put up with his shít.

Interesting the Scott D refuses to concede that Jaco’s tone is challenging for some - he’s such a massive fanboy. 

 

Scott can't ever say that Jaco's tone is divisive to put it mildly.

Newsted's tone sounds fantastic if that really is what it is. I never ever heard it before and didn't realise the isolated tracks were even available. I would also go so far as to say Trujillo does what he's told for one simple reason. Money. Lars is the boss and is responsible for some of the worst production crimes in music, let alone metal. How many Metallica albums have got good mixes? Post Burton? None. Why? Lars is a moron.

Anyone who's listened to the albums Trujillo is on will struggle to hear him. 

As an Entwistle fan, I've never been a fan of his quadrophenia tone. Mainly because it's Gibsons with no top end really.

As for the Jamerson tone being bad? Really?!! Really?!! Insane. He's fantastic. 

I'm so glad I have Scott Devine to tell me what to like. I'd be lost otherwise as my taste has not developed in any way.

I mean, it's the usual Scott Devine BS clickbait video. People like what tones they like. If it works it works. 

This could put paid to a 10th (10th!!!) version of the status kingbass. Hope springs eternal. 

13 hours ago, 4000 said:

Martin once said he had one only customer who likes lower action than me. I imagine it’s you. 😉😂

Very probably. I think when he fret stoned the 12 string the amount of metal taken off could have built the empire state building.

On 02/04/2020 at 20:45, 4000 said:

IIRC Wolverinebass likes his action a fair bit lower.😉

I do indeed. I've had my Status Buzzard down about 0.5mm at the 12th fret. My Alembic is pretty much the same.

There is no way that I want to fight a bass with my left hand. Sod that for a game of tennis. 

Admittedly, some basses just can't be set that low. However, try doing tapping when you could drive a bus under your action. My style which is quite percussive (not slapping!!) suits this really well, but it's not for everyone.

Even my 12 string Hamer has an action probably lower than most people could believe. Many thanks to Martin at the Gallery for that.

A lot of it is down to style as well. I tend not to dig in and play somewhat differently to most. If I had a different style then I'd have a different preference. 

I doubt they'll sell that many. Ashdown are probably the only company who can still sell relatively heavy amps and get away with it. However, at almost £1100 it's probably not going to tempt anyone who wasn't going to buy it anyway.

The price of the pedals is now eye watering. The new Geezer and Myung pedals are £300. Whether they're good or not, Ashdown isn't Darkglass and I'm not sure how many they'll sell at that price point without the "Nolly/Dingwall" effect.

4 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

It's a hybrid right with three valves in the pre? One of my fav amp configs, I'll have to admit.

Where would you put the clean tone on the sterile/clean/warm/coloured spectrum?

Depends how you set it really. I wouldn't say sterile though. With all the bump/contour/presence functions you can pretty much get anything you want.

5 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

Damn! I really was hoping someone wasn't going to say that. 

 

Mind elaborating? 

It's just really, really good. The EQ is great. Clean tone is immense and the dirt has to be heard to be believed. Not the Darkglass bin lid distortion, but beyond any level of brutal tube distortion you can imagine. I haven't used it at 2 ohms yet, but at 4 ohms and 800w it's devastatingly loud.

I just recently got the Fusion 1200. It absolutely kills.

I would never buy a Hartke now. A mate got the TX600 and when I tried it, it had no power. I'm sure that on talkbass someone had taken the top off to reveal the power module saying "400w." I fully suspect the newer ones will be the same. Underpowered junk.

They can have Victor Wooten on as many adverts as they like. It doesn't matter as their amps are dreadful.

2 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

 

Darkglass AO 900.  Cough.

 

I actually have an AO ultra for clients in the studio. I don't use it myself as it doesn't quite suit what I do really. I did toy with getting that amp a while back and decided against it.

I sold my HA5500 a couple of weeks ago as I did my first gig for some time. Actually helping out a client's band whose bass player went awol. 

The hilarious think was I only got £100 for it. Now, I'm not bothered by this, but it kind of shows how far they have fallen out of favour. 

The new amps are terrible. I think I'll be getting a new GK fusion s to replace it.

22 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

We're playing our second wedding gig, since restrictions lifted, tomorrow in Windsor. One of the singers is currently on holiday in Donegal so he's taking two flights back to get to the gig and will then fly back on Sunday. He's just arrived at Dublin airport and next flight is at 4 30pm this afternoon.

 

 

Talk about commitment!!!

He's not getting his travel expenses paid.

Maybe this means there won't be a 10th (yes, TENTH!!!) incarnation of the Status Kingbass.

8 hours ago, fleabag said:

I assume that you gave Ebay permission to have your bank details, so i believe you now have to ask them to cancel the direct debit on your account ?  I had a look at the personal stuff  and it seems you simply cannot now delete your bank details without adding another bank account first

I wasn't objecting to that as I can cancel the direct debit. What I objected to was waiting 10 days for my money. That was highly unamusing. Before you could get paid and have it in your bank account from PayPal in 10 minutes. Now, 10 days as eBay want the interest from millions of transactions for almost 2 weeks.

I sold a bunch of studio gear on ebay after the change. It took 10 days to get the money. Now, we're talking like £500 here and I was a bit short on cash, so them holding on to it like that dragon in The Hobbit was really annoying. The guy paid the day the auction ended. I then get an email to say it'll get processed in a few days. It took 6 for it be "processed" and another 4 to be stuck in cyber limbo before it turned up in my bank account.

Ebay can now go do one as this is one step too far for me.

1 hour ago, greghagger said:

Thanks for your advice.  Unfortunately because of COVID and my job as a professional bass player being taken away for over a year now, I don’t have the income to pay a marketer.  Online bass education is something I have been doing for a few years now, and it has been especially important to me to keep my family going over the last year. 
 

So yes, maybe I do sometime misread a group or get my marketing off.  BUT I do think that some people are losing a bit of perspective here.  After all Basschat is fine with people posting their YouTube videos.  I have learnt over the last few years that jealousy does also come into play. The very fact that someone puts a video out on YouTube makes a particular sort of person jealous that they ether can’t or haven’t themselves. 
 

By ‘keyboard warrior’ I mean the general sheep mentality that you sometimes find online. One person slags something off and predictably the online bullies pile in.  It’s easy to hide behind their computers and I’m not sure of the boldness that would actually happen in a real life exchange. 
 

Anyway the post is out there, enough important opinions have been cast.  Let’s move on and if anyone wishes to chat about the contents of the video and basses in general, I would be very happy to oblige!  

Dude. Quite a few folk in the forum have lost loads of work myself included. Guess what? We haven't done clickbait videos. Nor are we jealous of people who have.

People are jealous of youtubers? Well, I guess you could be of the ones who earn ludicrous amounts of money. But of your bass channel specifically? Come on. Really?

There's a reason why people don't like youtubers. It's the constant take mentality. Same with Instagram influencers. Is that not some form of entitlement?

I'm not a keyboard warrior. I make a rule to say nothing online I wouldn't say to someone's face.

I fear the more you dig in with this the worse the reactions might become in the future as most of the forum is over 45 so the demographic isn't going to warm to clickbait titled videos. Check out how much some people disliked Scott Devine's. It's the nature of the YouTube beast and it has nothing to do with finding out information. It's just clicks.

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"Sad Ben Affleck has done WHAT to his bass? Find out what Steve Lukather from Toto thinks to Pino Palladino's reaction."

I think what demos are missing is Patrick Hunter. Without his presence demos will sound different which will lead to bass players all over the world scratching their heads like confused plumbers.

Soon, Patrick Hunter will be doing all effect pedal demos. Everything will sound the same. One clip of him gurning like a hyena with a particularly unpleasant rectal problem will become interchangeable with another. All pedals will sound like Darkglass. 

Later, a sub culture of bass players who could remember the days before Patrick Hunter gather together round outdoor fires trying to pass on knowledge that bass doesn't always have to sound hyper distorted and played like a seal having a stroke.

After elderly bassists try to teach the next generation how to use a chorus pedal properly, all bass pedal companies are bought over by Darkglass with Doug Castro selling a range of pedals which are all B7k Ultra pedals with stickers over them that say "flanger," "delay," or even "ring modulator." Patrick Hunter is brought in to ensure reviews are conducted in their usual "dog chasing it's tail" way.

Soon Patrick Hunter becomes revered as a bass playing god by the younger generation. Any review causes Darkglass shares to increase by 10% in value so much that Doug Castro is able to buy Amazon and turn it into a bass pedal shipping company.

The population's needs are soon insatiable for more reviews and pedals. Dissent from anyone not playing a Dingwall/Darkglass combination is crushed mercilessly by Getgood stormtroopers. Anyone over 40 playing "Mr. Pink" on a Status Kingbass is executed immediately as an enemy of the state.

Patrick Hunter is elected as Secretary General of the UN which by this point is nothing more than an extension of the Darkglass empire.

All music is now controlled with Patrick Hunter limiting it to only songs which have Darkglass products used on them. Djent and Metalcore experience a resurgence in popularity.

However, underground, a small group of p bass players using flats have managed to survive. Classified as terrorists, these bass players have avoided the Getgood kill squads and are now trying to bring down the system, by exposing the population to Jaco Pastorius and Kajagoogoo.

Despite information being tightly controlled, they plot furtively in the shadows for the end of the Darkglass/Hunter hegemony imposed now by Getgood stormtroopers. As part of their published manifesto, they insist that all "Youtubers" will be prosecuted for crimes against humanity with trials being held in Silicon Valley. With these revolutionary ideas gaining traction, the one pedal state is planning a crackdown....

37 minutes ago, jazzyvee said:

I have recently about 3 weeks ago got an upgrade for my stanley clarke signature bass so that I could have separate pickup outs and separate volumes for each pickup and filter. It came with the pickup selector switch and mono stereo output switch and jack. It works great. Have you thought of converting yours?

I did think about it and decided against it. Where did you get your mod from just out of curiosity?

@Hellzero this is superb. Thank you so much my dear boy.

1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

I replied to your comment that it wouldn't work to inform you there would be no problem with it working, then I noticed your reply after I had commented and added the link to the 9way socket that you mentioned but didn't link, so I linked to it. NOt sure of the problem. I don't see anywhere else it was linked?

 

My comment? I didn't mention shunts. Or do you mean the ric circuit? I didn't check it all, I assumed as it was the ric diagram that is how it worked, if it doesn't, I appologise for them!

My whole point is it is a solved problem that isn't hard to do without some fancy circuits. Or the other, even easier way, you just put one socket and a mono/stereo switch, I think that is what I would have if I wanted dual output.

So, just to be clear on this. I could use a 9 pin stereo jack with a switch to go from mono to stereo? As you can all tell, I just play basses, not do any more than rudimentary wiring changes. Which means the volumes for each filter can be wired straight to the jack?

I presumed the diagram above wasn't an official one as there is no pickup selector switch on it?